The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha thought about his situation. Thinking was hard on him, he did not really feel like it, but he forced himself.